Why the “Social Contract” doesn’t mean anything Oct 3, 2014
Nothing new under the sun, but statists sure love this piece of fantasy to death, so I might as well give it a go too. The contract is fictional. It has never existed at any point in history So-called implicit consent cannot trump explicit dissent It should be obvious. Imagine if your neighbours barged in your house and asked you at the point of a gun to pay them taxes, which "you implicitly consented to by living here". A common answer to this objection is that the State has legitimate authority on the land and your neighbours don't. Which is...
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